[Alchemical compilation, in Latin and German.]

[Alchemical miscellany, in Latin and Italian.]
1. John of Rupescissa. De consideratione quinte essentie.
2. [Descriptions of various herbs, in Latin.]
3. [Alchemy in Latin.]
4. [Recipes for making Prussian Blue, in Italian.]

1. John of Rupescissa. De consideratione quinte essentie.
2. Rhemigius Burgensis. Quaestio de medio demonstrationis termino.
3. Simone Porzio. De animae immortalitate quaestio.
4. Francesco Petrarca. Dialogus de coniugii claritate.
5. [Alchemy and recipes, in Latin.]
6. [Properties of various fruits and nuts, in Italian verse, and seasons for planting, in Itialn prose.]
7. [Notes on logic, provenance of elements of this manuscript, and a game of divination.]

[Unidentified alchemical work in German.]
[Illustrated with 12 large pen drawings.
f45v A human faced Luna crest, dark at the inside, transits a circle formed by 5 alternately light and dark rings.
f46r Geometric symbolism. A circle of five rings alternately light and dark.
f50r 'Philosophisch Balneum' distillation apparatus.
f50v A multilevel furnace.
f51r A cylindrical furnace.
f74v-75r A distillation process moves from water bath in recatangular block furnace to a pear-shaped colling receptacle, then on to a barrel, and a final receptacle at ground level.
f75v A circle of six alternately white and black bordering rings is transited by a human faced Luna crest, between whose tips is an orb topped by a pointed cross.
f97r A word and circle chart on four levels. 'Taffel Lvnae Taffel Veneris'.
f109r Tailpiece of a fashioned pelican.
f228r God's Spiritual Hierarchy in Creation, a folding chart for eleven double ringed basic circles.
f229r Geometric and astrological symbolism.
f230r 'Der Philosophen Himel', depicted primarly with inscribed legends on internal bands, eleven of them concentric.

Michael Maier. Atalanta running, that is, New Chymicall Emblems relating to the Secrets of Nature [anonymously translated into English, not before 1618.]
[Blank spaces left for the emblems and musical pieces.]

John Dastin. Speculum philosophiae; Liber mixtionum.
[Illustrated with two coloured drawings. The first, is of an angel presenting an open book to a philosopher, a youthful nimbed male deity below standing in a pool of water holding the sun and moon in his outstretched hands, plants growing around the pool with sun or gold symbols as flowers. The second, shows the Sun shining from the heavens on a mountain on the slopes of which are seen the symbols of gold and silver as well as zodiacal animals and a human figure ascending and carrying a pitcher, while birds fly in the surrounding air.]

1. Lapis philosophorum, seu tinctura phisica [in Latin, followed by an English version.]
2. [Alchemical recipes, procedures and extracts, in English and Latin.]
3. [Astrology.]
4. Walter Charleton [Notes extracted from his book.]
5. [Alchemical and medical recipes, and aphorisms.]
6. George Rives, goldsmith. Account of the making of gold from lead at Bath by a certain Mervin in 1651.]
7. Dr Start. [Notes taken from his experiments, and other matter.]
8. Letter of a divine philosopher.

1. [Alchemical procedures.]
2. The secret of secretts.
3. Sir John Barkly. Secret practices of experiments, in three books.
4. A discourse of the minerall stone.
5. [Notes taken from conversation with Sir John Barkly, March 1581.]
6. Samuel Norton. [Abbreviated works.]
7. [Notes from a manuscript formerly in the King's Library, St James's.]
8. William Herbert [?]. [An extract from his works.]
9. D. Curer. [Notes from an old manuscript of his works.]
10. Roger Bacon. On the oil of antimony.
11. [Medical recipes, compiled 1658?]
12. [Abstract from Polemann and Helmont on the sulphur of the philosophers.]
13. [Medical recipes.]

Arcana divina [In German and Latin.]
[Illustrated with folding pen and wash drawing showing in the upper centre of a cloudy sky the Sn, whose rays are seen to be aimed especially at three double burnign lenses set on pedestals, the two on each side act upon glass vessels set on tables, while the other in the centre, supported by two angelic figures burns material in a plate.]
[From the Julius Kohn Collection.]

[Alchemical processes and recipes, in English, French and Latin.]
[Supposedly attributed to Sir Kenelm Digby.]
[With four illustrations in brown ink of alchemical apparatus.]

[Alchemical miscellany, in German.]
1. [Alchemy, in verse, with a prose commentary. With series of 13 allegorical illustrations, similar to the Hermaphroditisches Sonn- und Mondskind, Mainz, 1752. See also Mellon MSS. 108, 132 and 133. Mellon catalogue suggests the text may be an expanded German version of 'Preciosissimum Donum Dei'.]
2. [An index of chemical symbols and medicinal weights.]
3. [Sigillum Hermetis and other procedures.]
4. [Alchemical verses.]

Livre de la science hermétique, ou le grand oeuvre.
[Illustrated with series of 18 watercolours, which combine aspects of the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ with traditional hermetic symbolism.]

Johann Isaac Hollandus. [Die Hand der Philosophen, Opus Saturni, and Opera Vegetabilia, together with a Philosophischer Tractat ascribed to Sendivogius, all translated into Italian from the edition printed in German at Frankfurt, 1667.]

[Alchemical and Rosicrucian compendium in German, Low-German, Latin and Hebrew, with additions in German and Dutch.]
[Illustrated with many coloured drawings, 29 forming a series of flasks, while others are said in the catalogue to be linked with the Donum Dei series. The image of the green lion devouring the sun from the Rosarium Philosophorum appears on folio 132r, while f220r has the image of the three headed dragon in the flask, from the Splendor Solis sequence.]

[Alchemy, in German and Latin.]

Thesaurus thesaurorum. [in Latin with a few words in French.]
[Belonged to Baron de Toussainct.]
[ff11r-32r 30 numbered drawings which are often divided into two, the upper part having a flask upon a furnace, while the lower has a symbolic representation of the partitcula process intended.]
[The text is related to Trésor des trésors, found in Bibliothèque l'Arsenal MS. 975, and the illustrations relate to the Donum Dei series.]
[Interspersed among the 'flask series' in this manuscript are 12 of the hermaphrodite figures from the Rosarium Philosophorum series.]

Georg von Welling. 'The rise and origin of common salt' [an extract from Opus mago-cabalisticum et theosophicum, part I, anonymously translated into English.]
[This is continued in Mellon MS. 128.]

Georg von Welling. The rise, properties and use of sulphur, and of mercury [extracts from Opus mago-cabalisticum et theosophicum, parts II-III, anonymously translated into English.]
[This is a continuation of Mellon MS. 127.]

Publius Ovidus Naso. Le grand Olympe, [a translation into French verse of the moralizing, mystical version in Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses by Thomas Waleys, with a prose commentary, both ascribed in the text to Pierrec Vicot, 1430.]

Das Buch der Weissheit zum langen Leben und vollkommenen Reichthum [in German and Latin.]
[Illustrated with elaborate frontispiece and tailpiece, together with a series of 13 emblematic coloured drawings, based on the series of engravings in Hermaphroditisches Sonn- und Mondskind, Mainz, 1752.]
[See Mellon MSS. 94, 108 and 133.]

Georg von Welling. Philosophy of the Universe, or a general system of chemical, metaphysical, and mathematical knowledge [translated into English from Opus mago-cabblisticum et theosophicum, part I, by Francis Barrett.]

1. J.G. Toeltius. Coelum reservatum chymicum [translated into English by F.H (?), together with fifty-for Secret Keys to the understanding of the work.]
2. Concerning divine magic, or Cabbalistic mysteries, an anonymous translation from a German original.]
[Illustrations in the text.]